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It wasn’t the Republican votes against House Speaker John Boehner that truly rattled the GOP leadership, it was the phone calls. There were hundreds of them, jamming the phone lines of the district and Capitol offices of dozens of House GOP lawmakers. The callers were not angry about legislation. Nor were they asking for help with a local matter. They were demanding their representative vote against Boehner Tuesday in his bid to win election to a third term as speaker. For the GOP leadership, the flood of calls was a game changer. It thrusted the leadership into triage mode as...

. Free Republic's Jim Robinson has approved this proposal. I'll check my e-mail (provided in the slides) in a few days and see if there are twenty-two (22) folks interested. I'm not here to "command" or "overlord" ... Anyone who feels genuinely called to lead this (proposed) effort should provide their name and e-mail address to this thread's readers. We're all familiar with recent disappointments with John Boehner (etc). This thread is "not" meant to discuss those issues ... rather ... what does the FUTURE look like. The Free Republic "Admin" is asked to closely monitor this thread to delete...

With the Syrian crisis receding on Capitol Hill, Congress on Thursday plunged back into its bitter fiscal standoff as Speaker John A. Boehner appealed to the Obama administration and Democratic leaders to help him resolve divisions in the Republican ranks that could lead to a government shutdown by month’s end. In meetings with Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders on Thursday after a session with Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew on Wednesday, Mr. Boehner pleaded for a resumption of negotiations that could keep the government running and yield a deficit-reduction deal that would convince b>recalcitrant conservatives to raise the government’s borrowing...